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Manuscript diary written during his stay in Newport, Kentucky, and through the return to his hometown of Medfield, Massachusetts.
This diary, kept by my great-great-great-grandfather, details many specifics of the hemp factory he was building, his religious thoughts and activities, and the ever-important weather, but it is disappointingly silent about his feelings about being…
Anno Regni Georgii Regis … at a Session of the General Assembly of the Colony of New-Jersey, Begun the Twenty Fourth Day of September, Anno Domini 1723, and Continued by Adjournments … at which Time the Following Acts were Published.
Provenance: New Jersey Chief Justice David Brearley; future New Jersey governor and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court William Paterson.
The first New Jersey imprint.
For forty-three years I have collected, studied, and…
The first New Jersey imprint.
For forty-three years I have collected, studied, and…
An Account of the Conversion of the Reverend Mr. John Thayer, Lately a Protestant Minister, at Boston in North-America, Who Embraced the Roman Catholic Religion at Rome, on the 25th of May, 1783.
This small pamphlet is the first American edition of the testimonial of the first American Protestant clergyman to become a Catholic, the Rev. Mr. John Thayer, Boston-born and acquainted with many of the Founding Fathers. This edition of his work…
Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television.
Red Channels is an imperfect guide to the supposed political leanings of those in American radio and television suspected by self-anointed “patriots” of being less than one hundred percent “loyal” to the United States. These patriots began their…
Autograph manuscript signed, from an unpublished essay.
Provenance: Philip D. Sang.
“One of the most striking characteristics of an American is his self dependence. Born to no fortune he knows, from his earliest years, that he has nothing but his own mental and bodily exertions to rely on in the great…
Opera in New York.
Pages taken from Century Illustrated Magazine 23, nos. 5 and 6 (March 1882 and April 1882), profusely extra-illustrated.This volume contains a remarkable range of lithographs, engravings, photographs, autograph letters and documents, original…
Autograph letter signed to Hiram Barney introducing Joseph Wright.
This letter came down to me through my family, which circuitously wends its way back to Joseph Wright directly and through marriages. Having done fundraising for various charities throughout my adult life, I was struck by the wordsmith Lincoln…
Notes on Some of the Birds of Oyster Bay, Long Island.
As a Theodore Roosevelt scholar, I am intrigued by his love of birds. Aside from his family, politics and birds were the great loves of his life. As president, he established fifty-one protected federal bird sanctuaries. And as an ornithologist in…
Etymologiae.
Provenance: Richard Götlich, a contemporary Strasbourg physician, with his annotations and signature.
Written ca. 600, this work, first in manuscript and then in print, became the major encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Isidore, archbishop of…
Written ca. 600, this work, first in manuscript and then in print, became the major encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Isidore, archbishop of…
Chronicon.
Provenance: Abel Berland.
My primary collection is the Aldine Press, but my eye occasionally wanders to other examples of early Venetian printing. This book is a synchronistic history of the world, in which each column represents the chronological…
My primary collection is the Aldine Press, but my eye occasionally wanders to other examples of early Venetian printing. This book is a synchronistic history of the world, in which each column represents the chronological…